On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, John Wells defenestrated me:
>
> Can anyone tell me A. if it's possible, and B. if not, what remains to be
> done with JRuby to make it possible? If it may be possible in the future,
> but work remains to be done, I'd like to get involved and help out.
As far as I know, no one has looked at this yet. I am guessing making
RoR run within Java could work in one of two ways (and I know little about
RoR so anyone can jump in here -- I plan on learning more soon though :)):
1. Change request evaluation code in RoR to work in a servlets environment
2. Run apps in a full ruby way and run webrick as the server
I have no idea how close RoR evaluation is to the servlets model for 1,
and though we have some very new and very rudimentary sockets support we are
a ways from 2 (because of lacking pieces of socket support).
Also if RoR uses continuations, then this will be a non-starter since
we do not support them yet.
We would welcome any help with JRuby. Investigating how to integrate RoR
into a J2EE environment would be pretty cool. Working on socket support
would also be welcome.
If you want to get your hands dirty, you can join one of our JRuby-specific
mailing lists:
http://jruby.sourceforge.net/contact.shtml
-Tom
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